Swedish and Norwegian skiers were suspected of using banned racing lubricants at the Scandinavian Cup in Falun. Reported by NRK.
According to the source, the athletes used materials with a type of fluoride banned for sale in the European Union. Athletes are not named. It is noted that such lubricants can provide a competitive advantage to skiers using them.
The skiing director of the International Ski Federation Pierre Migneuil said the skiers had already confessed to fraud and an investigation was launched against them. At the same time, he noted that the ban on the use of such fluorine-containing products was not mentioned in the competition rules, which means that the athletes did not formally violate the rules.
In March last year, the head of the Russian Cross-Country Skiing Federation, Elena Vyalbe, said that she considered Norwegian asthmatic athletes to receive therapeutic exceptions as a loophole for victory. The Norwegian national team trains on an equal footing with the Russian team, however, according to the specialist, therapeutic exceptions become legal doping, which helps them to defeat their rivals.
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